Caroline Bicks (Orono University of Maine)

Cognition and Girlhood in Shakespeare's World

Rethinking Female Adolescence

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Produktbeschreibung

Mining a variety of genres from Shakespearean plays and medical texts to autobiographical writings, Bicks demonstrates how early moderns depicted female puberty as a transformative event that activated girls' cognitive faculties in dynamic ways, gifting them with the ability to invent, judge, and remember what others could or would not.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 598g
• ISBN-13: 9781108844215
• ISBN-10: 1108844219
• Artikelnr.: 62215463

Autorenporträt

Caroline Bicks is Professor and Stephen E. King Chair in Literature at the University of Maine. She is the author of Midwiving Subjects in Shakespeare's England (2003), the co-editor of The History of British Women's Writing, 1500-1610 (2010), and the co-author of Shakespeare, Not Stirred: Cocktails for Your Everyday Dramas (2015). Her writing has been featured in the Modern Love column of the New York Times and on National Public Radio.

Inhaltsangabe

1. 'A spectacle to men and angells': Juliet Capulet and the case of Mary
Glover; 2. 'Imagination helps me': liberating brainwork in Comus, Othello,
and The Two Noble Kinsmen; 3. 'The progresse of an art': daughters and the
invention of new knowledges; 4. 'If I should tell / My history': memory,
trauma, and testimony in Pericles and Hamlet; 5. 'Put on the minde':
cognitive play in Gallathea, The Winter's Tale, and The Convent of
Pleasure; 6. 'From thirteene Yeares ... resolved to serve God': Mary Ward's
adolescent brainwork.